╖
Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single
- Unicode
- U+2556
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╖
- CSS
- \2556
The ╖ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Down Double And Left Single character, forms the top-right corner of a text-based grid. It originated in legacy computing environments, like MS-DOS, to help developers design text-based user interfaces (TUIs) before graphical operating systems became standard. Today, it remains a staple in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and plain-text documents for creating clean, structured tables where vertical lines are double-stroked and horizontal lines are single.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9558
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2556
- HTML
- ╖
In Programming
Programmers frequently use this symbol in command-line interface (CLI) tools, console applications, and logging outputs to draw structured, visually appealing text boxes and table borders.
Tags
ASCII art corner
TUI character
U+2556
border
box corner symbol
box drawing
dingbat
double line
double vertical single horizontal
down double left single
frame
mixed line corner
retro terminal
table
text frame corner
top-right corner
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┃
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical
┄
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal
┅
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal
┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
┇
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical
┈
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┉
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┊
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
┋
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical